UPDATE:

That is the date set to start fuel rod removal from the highly damaged fuel cooling pool above Reactor #4 at #FukushimaDaiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan.The process itself is very delicate and dangerous and is usually executed by robots and computers.

This is not an option for the Fuel Cooling Pool above Reactor #4. The floor is tilted, the roof is caved in, and the fuel holding racks are askew.

Manual mechanical removal of new and spent fuel rods is the current option.

>>If any of these thousands of spent and new fuel rods are damaged or touch each other, a massive nuclear criticality could occur.Not to mention Typhoon and Seismic events in recent days.

NHK WORLD,
Oct 30, 2013: [...] The firm [TEPCO] hopes to begin the removal at the
facility’s Number 4 reactor on November 8th. Tokyo Electric plans to
check whether the rods are damaged by debris that fell into the pool in
March 2011, and to ensure that they do not get caught in the debris
during the removal process. [...]

ABC’s Interview with Yale Professor Charles Perrow,
author of recent article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientist about
Tepco’s upcoming attempt to remove fuel from the Unit 4 pool: “This
has me very scared.” He warned that one slip-up with the removal of

Sunday, October 27, 2013

With #CometIson in close proximity to the Earth, the Sunspot activity is increasing dramatically.
A number of sunspots, including 1875 and 1882 are trading shots today
with moderate to strong solar flares. In addition to the X1.0 and M5.1
flares last night, Sunspot 1882 just produced M2.7 and M4.4 solar
flares. The event was also very noisy creating heavy bursts of noise
across the VHF radio spectrum.

Updated 10/28/2013 @ 04:50 UTCX1.0 SOLAR FLARE
The GOA smaller solar flare was already in progress
around sunspot 1882 at the time of this eruption. Sunspot 1875 is no
longer directly Earth facing... http://solarham.net/ble

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MULTIPLE X-FLARES: Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1-class solar flare from sunspot AR1875 on Oct. 28th at 0203 UT. This is the 3rd X-flare since Oct. 25th, which means solar activity is still high. Stay tuned for more information about the latest eruption. Solar flare alerts:text, voice.

A
magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the coast of Fukushima on Friday
afternoon, sparking a tsunami advisory in the prefecture already
blighted two years ago by a deadly 9.0 magnitude quake.

Friday, October 25, 2013, 1:34 PM

Google The Japan
Meteorological Agency issued a warning for a possible tsunami up to a
meter high following a 7.3 magnitude earthquake Friday.

A tsunami advisory has been issued for the Fukushima coast, nearly two
years after a deadly tsunami blighted the prefecture and caused the
worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
According to the Weather Channel, a 1-meter tsunami is expected to make
landfall around 1:40 p.m. Friday. The 7.3-magnitude quake that preceded
it was felt all the way from Tokyo to northern Japan, the channel
reports.PHOTOS: NATURAL DISASTERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Japan Meteorological Agency The Japan Meteorological
Agency issued a warning for a possible tsunami up to a meter high
following a 7.3 magnitude earthquake Friday.

In March 2011, a powerful 9.0 magnitude quake struck around 200 miles north of Japan, spurring a devastating tsunami.
Massive 30-foot waves washed over much of the Fukushima prefecture,
including the Daiichi Nuclear Plant, causing an estimated $300 billion
in damage.

NOBORU HASHIMOTO/AFP/Getty Images An aerial photo taken March
14, 2011, shows an area destroyed by the tsunami in Minamisanriku in
Miyagi prefecture three days after a massive tsunami devastated the
eastern coast of Japan.

The death toll for the 2011 tsunami is currently 15,883, according to CNN, and nearly 90,000 people are still displaced from their homes over fears of nuclear radiation.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

#Fukushima Update:

The Ocean is Broken...

Sailor: “After we left Japan, it felt
as if the ocean itself was dead” — Nothing alive for over 3,000 miles —
No longer saw turtles, dolphins, sharks, birds — Saw one whale, it
appeared helpless with big tumor on head

[...] The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to
San Francisco and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with
nauseous horror and a degree of fear.“After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead,” [Newcastle, Australia yachtsman Ivan] Macfadyen said.“We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling
helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its
head. It was pretty sickening.“I’ve done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I’m used to
seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But
this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen.”In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes. [...]And something else. The boat’s vivid yellow paint job, never faded by
sun or sea in years gone past, reacted with something in the water off
Japan, losing its sheen in a strange and unprecedented way. [...]

In a conversation with the show's panel about the country's debt and
credit downgrade, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan passionately calls both the
Democratic and Republican economic plans, "reckless, irresponsible and
stupid." (From MSNBC, Tuesday August 9th, 2011)

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"Saudi Arabia has been criticized for its slow response to #MERS, but
so far the world has been lucky. The disease has yet to really break out
of the Middle East and threaten the world like the H1N1 flu in 2009 and
#SARS six years earlier. SARS, which killed 744 of the 8,098 people who
contracted it, earned a rare global travel warning to affected hotspots
like Hong Kong and caused some $40 billion in economic damages. But that
could change this week with the #Hajj, the world’s largest annual
gathering, which typically draws millions of Muslims to Saudi Arabia to
trace the footsteps of the Prophet Mohammed between holy sites in Mecca,
Mina, Mount Arafat and Medina."

As the Hajj Unfolds in Saudi Arabia, A Deep Look Inside the Battle Against MERS

For more than a year, Saudi Arabia has struggled
to control the new disease MERS. Now, with millions of Muslim pilgrims
descending on the country, the challenge will get that much tougher.

A
Muslim pilgrim wears a mask as she walks to Mecca's Grand Mosque to
perform evening prayers on Oct. 8, five days before the start of the
annual Hajj pilgrimage.

In the sci-fi thriller Contagion, a new virus emerges from
wildlife and jumps into human beings, wreaking havoc around the world.
Millions die and society all but shuts down. The plot is frightening
because it’s realistic—there are viruses out there in the animal
population that, with the right genetic mutation, can jump the species
barrier and infect us. If virulent enough and able to spread easily
between people, we might find ourselves living in a real-life horror
movie.

The film is loosely based on what the deadly but limited Nipah
virus—the bat-to-pig-to-human infection identified 14 years ago in Malaysia—would
look like if it could have easily spread around the world. Now we’re
seeing a sequel of sorts. Some scientists who tackled that virus are
battling a new coronavirus called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV). The symptoms appear gastrointestinal (abdominal pain,
diarrhea) or flu-like (fever, shortness of breath, heavy cough), but
can worsen into severe pneumonia. It has killed 60 of 138
laboratory-confirmed patients since it first emerged in Jordan in April
2012. The majority of cases and deaths have appeared in Saudi Arabia;
others were reported in Qatar, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and
Western Europe, where some patients sought better care or returned from
visits to the region.
The world’s top virologists have struggled to uncover the origin of
MERS and predict its path. Many believe it’s carried by bats—the
reservoir for a number of new pathogens, including its distant cousin
SARS. But since people rarely interact with bats, it may be introduced
to humans through an intermediary animal. In August, European
investigators suggested in the Lancet that
camels could be the middlemen after blood tests of retired racing
dromedaries in Oman and ones used for tourism in the Canary Islands
found antibodies—proteins made by the immune system to fight
infection—that indicate prior exposure to MERS or a close relative. A Eurosurveillancereport
weeks later stoked that suspicion, as most of the dromedaries sampled
from Egypt had similar results. They earned equal parts promise and
skepticism.

So did an Emerging Infectious Diseasesstudy
in late August that named bats as the likely ultimate source of the
virus. “Finally, we nailed it,” says Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance,
a New York-based organization that patrols the animal-human health
border. EcoHealth collaborated on the study with the Saudi Ministry of
Health and Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity.
Researchers matched a fragment of viral RNA from a fecal pellet of the
insect-eating Egyptian tomb bat to a sample from the first human case in
Saudi Arabia. One problem: the genetic fragment was too small to be
certain that it was indeed from the MERS virus. Researchers in Sydney
added to that lead in October with a report in Virology Journal that
suggested bats haven’t just fought the virus, but evolved a way to
escape it. It’s all the strongest evidence scientists have yet about the
source of this new disease—and it still doesn’t add up to much.

Saudi Arabia has been criticized for its slow response to MERS, but
so far the world has been lucky. The disease has yet to really break out
of the Middle East and threaten the world like the H1N1 flu in 2009 and
SARS six years earlier. SARS, which killed 744 of the 8,098 people who
contracted it, earned a rare global

Forecast shows Fukushima to get eye
wall of Typhoon Wipha — Weather Channel: Things may be getting worse at
plant; Storm surge to combine with inland flooding at site (VIDEO)

Wall St. Journal,
Oct. 15, 2013 at 7:38p ET: Typhoon Wipha Batters Japan’s East Coast
[...] the strongest typhoon in a decade to affect the Kanto region [...]
Classified as a “large” typhoon on the agency’s storm scale [...]
Record precipitation of 122.5 millimeters per hour was registered on Izu
Oshima Island, about 120 kilometers south of the capital in the
Pacific, with total rainfall on the island in the last 24 hours
surpassing 750 millimeters. [...] Evacuation orders were issued to 8,840
residents in Kimitsu City, Chiba Prefecture, as a nearby river was
feared to be on the verge of flooding. [...] Precautions were also
taken at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where
workers have struggled to contain leaks of contaminated water. Equipment
was bundled together [...] Typhoon Wipha is the strongest storm to
approach eastern Japan since October 2004.

Carl Parker, The Weather Channel’s hurricane specialist,
Oct. 15, 2013: There’s a very sensitive location just to the north of
Tokyo. [...] they’re still working very hard to contain the radiation.
They don’t want it to get into the groundwater. If you add storm surge,
there could be some significant storm surge, although the storm will be
weakening at that time, along with inland flooding, because there’s
going to be very heavy rain, then you’re going to be looking at the
possibility of something getting worse there at the facility. So,
hopefully that does not happen.The Weather Channel, Oct. 15, 2013: There’s a possibility that the storm surge could affect [the Fukushima nuclear plant].Watch the Weather Channel segment here

“Once-in-a-decade typhoon” on path for Fukushima — Top Official: Giant tanks of nuclear-contaminated waste at risk of being destroyed — Winds near 200 kilometers per hour — Gov’t: Water can be released into ocean — WSJ: ‘Monster’ bearing down on plant (PHOTO)

Japan Times, Oct. 15, 2013 at 10:20a ET: The strongest typhoon to reach Tokyo in 10 years was expected to slam into the region with full force Wednesday morning, the Meteorological Agency said. [...] TEPCO said it was bracing for the storm to hit the crippled

Each week Fairewinds receives many questions about the ongoing tragedy unfolding in Japan as a result of the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Join us as Fairewinds' Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen highlights the many problems facing Japan as he takes you on a tour of the Fukushima Daiichi site by combining satellite video, animated graphics and photos to create a comprehensive and easy to follow video tour.

GRAY STATE Official Concept Trailer #1

GRAY STATE SYNOPSISThe world
reels with the turmoil of war, geological disaster, and economic
collapse, while Americans continue to submerge themselves in illusions
of safety and immunity. While rights are sold for security, the federal
government, swollen with power, begins a systematic takeover of liberty
in order to bring about a New World Order.

Americans, quarantined to militarized districts, become a population ripe for tyrannical control.

Fearmongering,
terrorism, police state, martial law, war, arrest, internment, hunger,
oppression, violence, resistance -- these are the new terms by which
Americans define their existence. Neighbor is turned against neighbor as
the value of the dollar plunges to

Update: 19.03.2014:

“Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer
manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at
least 18 months, probably longer.” - FERC

Update 30.10.2013:

Full Video added. #SolarMax is in full swing with the approach of Comet Ison.

GridExII starts next week...

Stay Alert.

Stay Informed.

#AmericanBlackout, a National
Geographic program first aired in October 2013, giving a fictional
"docudrama" account of a nationwide electrical blackout in the United
States, and its severe aftermath. Most of the program is mock
"vlogging" by those affected, interspersed with mock "news footage."

What would you do if the Internet or the power grid went down for over a year? Our key:

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

#GridDown issues plague #NSADataFarm in Utah.

There have been 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months that have prevented the NSA from using computers at its new Utah data-storage center, slated to be the spy agency’s largest, according to project documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The NSA data center in Utah may have had to use this plan thanks to electrical concerns. - Forbes.com

The NSA's Hugely Expensive Utah Data Center Has Major Electrical Problems And Basically Isn't Working

Well, this is good news for those with privacy concerns about the NSA and terrible news for those concerned about government spending. The National Security Agency’s new billion-dollar-plus data center in Bluffdale, Utah was supposed to go online in September, but the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman reports that it has major electrical problems and that the facility known as “the country’s biggest spy center” is presently nearly unusable:

Chronic electrical surges at the massive new data-storage facility central to the National Security Agency’s spying operation have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of machinery and delayed the center’s opening for a year, according to project documents and current and former officials.There have been 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months that have prevented the NSA from using computers at its new Utah data-storage center, slated to be the spy agency’s largest, according to project documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Glenn Greenwald isn’t the only one dropping explosive material on the NSA. According to the Wall Street Journal, the data center’s electrical problems include “arc failures,” a.k.a. “a flash of lightning inside a 2-foot box,” which results in fiery explosions, melted metal and circuit failure. More terrifying, this has happened ten times, most recently on September 25, reports the WSJ, which reviewed project documents and reports and talked to contractors involved. The report blames the NSA “fast tracking” the Utah project and thus bypassing “regular quality controls in design and construction.” Whoops.Worse, it sounds from the WSJ’s reporting as if the contractors —